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No. 6 Tigers: 25th in a series counting down to spring training. Next: Diamondbacks. This not just in: Justin Verlander is a stud. He makes an in-his-prime Richard Gere look like Don Knotts. If he was a guitarist, Eric Clapton would never go on stage with him. If he was an investor, Warren Buffett would call him for advice. Thanks to the warm-hearted nature of the Baseball Writers Association of America, Verlander enters 2012 as the American League's reigning Most Valuable Player and Cy Young Award winner. He didn't deserve both honors — teammate Miguel Cabrera was at least as responsible for the Tigers' success — but this isn't an argument about the...

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No. 6 Tigers: 25th in a series counting down to spring training. Next: Diamondbacks.
This not just in: Justin Verlander is a stud.
He makes an in-his-prime Richard Gere look like Don Knotts. If he was a guitarist, Eric Clapton would never go on stage...

Journalists love a trend story, and a trend that ties in to a pop cultural phenomenon? All the better. In the case of the archery story on the front page of Thursday’s Chicago Tribune, an editor posed a hypothesis -- probably after seeing one of the...

Under Armour has agreed to a multi-year partnership with Fight For Children, a non-profit working to improve early childhood and K-12 education.The Baltimore-based sports apparel brand said Tuesday it will serve as the presenting sponsor of the group's...

Work has been completed on a multipurpose synthetic turf field in Locust Point that Under Armour is donating to the city.
The Baltimore-based sports apparel company, which has headquarters in Locust Point, on Tuesday unveiled Banner Field at Latrobe...

Orioles Hall of Famer Cal Ripken Jr. makes no secret that his desire to get back into the game is at its highest level since his playing days ended.
But for Ripken, a homegrown kid who became as identifiable with Baltimore and the Orioles organization as...

Following a string of recent cases in which coaches used their positions to sexually abuse children, the Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation says it is trying to help sports organizations better screen people who work with young athletes.The foundation has...

— As Cal Ripken Jr. watched the news unfold of the sexual abuse committed by Jerry Sandusky at Penn State University, he decided to take on the chief question before the sporting community: "What can we do to make kids safer?"
The Orioles...

Detectives in Aberdeen received a tip they hoped would be their big break: A prisoner seeking leniency said he knew the man who abducted the mother of Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr.
But nearly nine months after the bizarre kidnapping, no suspect has...

One year after she was abducted at gunpoint and taken on a daylong trek in the back seat of her Lincoln Town Car, Vi Ripken still can't help worrying when she pulls into a parking spot and another car pulls up behind her.
Ripken, the 75-year-old mother...

For many, the lasting image of Earl Weaver will be that of a fiery, short man kicking dirt and spewing his displeasure at an umpire. Weaver's personality — described as "combative," "irascible" and also "caring" — carried...

The Orioles didn’t have to make any extra travel plans for their top minor-league award winners for the first time in 20-plus years.On Tuesday, as part of minor league appreciation night, the organization honored current Oriole right-hander Dylan Bundy...

The Orioles announced today that they have moved Brooks Robinson’s statue unveiling from May 12 to Sept. 29.
The move was at the request of the 74-year-old Robinson, who has dealt with cancer scares in the past, but has been recovering slowly from a...

Bound and abducted in her own vehicle, Violet Ripken was gone for 12 hours before her disappearance was reported to authorities. And amid an intensive search, she was quietly dropped off by her kidnapper on her secluded Harford County street. A neighbor,...

Cal Ripken Jr.will not come to your kid's school and help him polish off a bully. What exactly do you want for $16.99? But with his latest children's book, the Hall of Famer hopes he can arm your kids, informationally, with what they need to handle...

When Orioles manager Buck Showalter heard about Tuesday’s gunpoint abduction of Vi Ripken, the mother of former Oriole great Cal Ripken Jr., it brought back difficult memories.“Obviously our thoughts and prayers go out to the Ripken family,” Showalter...

Authorities investigating the strange circumstances of Violet R. Ripken's abduction hope that tips made in response to grainy images of the suspect will lead to an arrest.
"We are attempting to look at other sources of video, photos" to release...

As the investigation into Violet R. Ripken's abduction stretched into an eighth day, police remained silent Wednesday about their leads — a strategy Harford County State's Attorney Joseph I. Cassilly said could ensure the potential suspect doesn't destroy...

If you want to meet the matriarch of Maryland's most famous baseball family, just go to a minor league game in Aberdeen. There she is on dozens of summer nights — plain-spoken and tough as leather but also open, happy to talk about the thousands of...

Mark Reynolds entered Wednesday night’s game hitting .206 with just eight homers this season. The corner infielder has homered at least 30 times each of the last three years and had a team-high 37 in 2011. But right now he is tied with Nick Markakis for...